![]() He pointed out, "And we don't have a single, ancient record of any of the disciples ever recanting when that was often the goal of the people who were persecuting Christians." Wallace can't accept this was all just a conspiracy because detectives know those often fall apart when there are too many conspirators and the people involved face real threats if they don't recant. ![]() McDowell scoffed, "The impossibility of that! That they could have climbed through there, tiptoed around all the guards and become invisible to the guards in front of the tomb, rolled a one-and-a-half to two-ton stone that in that day that they said 20 men couldn't move it." Second, how would He be able to move in such a state like that a one-and-a-half to two-ton stone away from the entrance?"Īs for the theory His disciples stole the body, the Jewish leaders opposed to Jesus were so worried about that exact thing happening, they talked the Romans into putting a massive guard group - as many as 16 soldiers - outside the tomb. He continued, "Christ was encased in that, and it becomes hardened. "There were a hundred and some pounds of encasement of aromatic spices and gumming of cement consistency around His body, wrapped tightly in three separate linen cloths weighing about 117 pounds," McDowell told CBN News. How Could He Move? Or Roll Away the Stone?īut instead of refuting, he became so convinced it happened, he spends dozens of pages in Evidence That Demands a Verdict knocking down false theories, like the one suggesting Christ didn't really die but woke up and escaped from the tomb. "The Resurrection was one of several things I knew I had to refute as a non-believer," McDowell recalled. And as a result, we have a good piece of hidden science that confirms that Jesus actually died of cardiac arrest and was dead at the point of the body being taken off the cross."Īs a young atheist, Josh McDowell set off to write Evidence That Demands a Verdict to show the evidence about Christ, including His Resurrection, was so weak, the verdict would be "Not True." It struck Wallace powerfully that John wrote of this, saying, "He was either so clever that he included some little-known biological fact that nobody would discover for 1800 years or he just reported what he saw. "Now if that happens, if you pierce that cavity, you will see a separation of blood and water." "Water will collect in your lungs," he explained. You won't be as flexible as you would be if you were just unconscious."Īnd Warner finds in the Gospel of John a key point of proof that Jesus wasn't faking it and that He really did die: a line about blood and water coming out of Jesus' body on the cross when a Roman soldier pierced him with a spear. This author of Cold-Case Christianity moved on, saying, "This is something I've seen my entire career: there's the thing called rigor mortis. And we can actually judge time of death based on how cool." "That hot blood's going to stop circulating, you're going to cool down. "As a homicide detective, I'm thinking 'I've seen a lot of dead people, and I know what dead people look like,'" he said, and then talked about something called "the mortise triad." Wallace points out when you work with dead bodies all the time like he has and people in Christ's time did, you can definitely tell "dead" from "nearly dead." Tackling Theories Against the Resurrectionįor years some doubters clung to one theory that Jesus didn't actually die on the cross but was just nearly dead and revived later. He remembered telling himself, "I'm going to have to figure out how to evaluate that for its truthfulness given this skill set that I had as a cold case detective."ĬBN News talked to him at this crowded conference where hundreds of people gathered to hear Wallace and others tell their stories and learn how their faith in Christ rests on solid evidence. Warner Wallace became so well known at solving decades-old murders, he ended up as the foremost expert on national TV true crime shows.īut as an atheist, he decided to turn his superior detective skills on disproving the Resurrection of Jesus Christ…or even proving it if the evidence should somehow take him there. Two of the most famous former atheists came to a Truth for a New Generation conference outside of this North Carolina city to talk about how they ended up strong defenders of the fact Christ really did rise from the dead.Īs a successful cold-case detective, J. GREENSBORO, N.C.- When atheists find evidence of Jesus' Resurrection and become believers, you know there must be more than just faith that it happened.
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